Posts Tagged ‘knowledge management’

Copy the Beginners Course folder from the MindManager Course folder to the client’s course folder

Open the map shown above. Do not let MindManager update the links.

Open all the relative R linked maps which are now in the client’s course folder.

Edit and populate with relevant information.

The links back to the “Course Map” will work.

Open all the absolute A links and check they work.

There are no links back to the “Course Map” unless you manually add them.

Simple:

The Beginners Course Folder contains “template” maps to be moved and edited for each course

Other folders and maps in MindManager Course folder contain reference maps and other files which don’t change for each course.

If you let MindManager update the links the absolute ones will be fine but the relative ones will point back to the original folder. You may find this confusing when you are running your course! e.g. “I am sure I added all your names to the course members map”

This is my cut from a Visual Thinking Hub webinar in which I show how to use MindManager or Mindjet for Windows to create a knowledge map about a subject. The techniques of drag and drop or copy and paste for text, links and images from web pages are also applicable to files and folders on your local PC and network drives. This functionality has been in MindManager for more than a decade. You will also see how to use the map parts to add search results to your map ( a recent addition about five years ago). For a map outlining the video content please visit my previous blog

In summary: Its tips for getting links from web pages and web sites on to your web using simple drag and drop, toolbar buttons and active map parts. It really is very easy, quick and immensely powerful.

Links to video will be added.

To help search engines find this page and those with impaired vision to “read” the map.

The image map content is repeated below as a text outline in one or two columns.

The New Room Layout at Badger Farm Another bumper
auction. Nearly 300 lots were sold. We had a surprise with
lot 110, a collection drawing instruments and a beret sold for
£400. The photo below does not reveal the WWII
Paratrooper&#8217;s cap badge on the other side of the Red
Beret. Secondly we changed the […]

SHOCK ONE: the sun has been out all weekend and
the long-term weather forecast says it will be the same next
Saturday for our auction. Don&#8217;t go to the beach.
Don&#8217;t go to the New Forest. Come to our auction and
perhaps you will be able to pop to Sainsburys at 5pm and buy the
[…]

A full room of bidders at Itchen Abbas On a sunny
afternoon at the village hall, 412 lots were photographed and
mostly sold. We had our highest total sales in our nearly 10 years
of auctions. One seller approached a £1,000 worth of sales.
They also had the highest value item in the sale at […]

7.2.1.4 Next Auction 4th May at Itchen Abbas between Winchester and Alresford

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:01:07 +0000

&#160; Best to book if you are planning to
sell at this auction. Please contact Bob on 01962 733475 or Claire
on 01962 734941. Please note delivery times for lots have been
revised to 09:30 to 10:30. We expect there to be between 350 and
450 lots on sale from 2pm. The quality of lots […]

Another busy auction at Badger Farm Community
Centre. We had 365 lots to sell. Giving us time to sell the
items at about 120 lots per hour. The result was a higher
percentage of sold items and the average value went up as
well. This benefited our sellers, who are the principal
clients of the […]

If you are planning to sell, have you booked a
table? Phone one of the numbers above or send an email. Bob will be
away for this one. So we will be slightly more stretched than
usual. There were still many lots which did not sell at the last
auction. We will be stricter about […]

7.2.1.7 Itchen Abbas – 2 March 2013 – Probably the most people in the room!

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:34:29 +0000

The auction room soon filled with lots and we had
to turn some unbooked sellers away. We are comfortable with 400
lots but we lotted 460 plus today. Thank you to those that arrived
early or on time for the viewing session at 12:30 and sat quietly
while we completed the lotting and photography. Just […]

I was using my Cabre’s Financial Administration map today to complete the annual return to Companies House which confirms who the directors , shareholders etc. are. It’s been online for several years and the fee even went down this year from £14 to £13!

As using the map made it very easy for me to complete and the original post about it was in 2008, I thought it might be worth reminding you of the benefit of using Mindjet for this. The process went like this:

My friend Henry Lewkowicz at Context Discovery has been working on the automatic extraction of knowledge summaries from a variety of sources including Wikis & Word docs and now Blogs. On the right hand side of this blog you will now see a BlogSummarizer widget. First select a keyword (they are automatically extracted from the blog) and then click Knowledge Map or Keyword Search.

Knowledge Map – A new window will open with a map whose central topic is the keyword and the branches are the secondary keywords. Keep on clicking to dive deeper.

Keyword Search – Shows a map of the blogs with that keyword. Click the plus sign at the end of each topic to reveal a blog summary. This allows you to quickly review the entries before visiting a specific blog by clicking Source.

The maps can be exported for you to continue your research in application which suits you.

The best thing is to select a keyword and give it a go.

I have already given Henry some feedback:

Some of the primary keywords need hiding e.g. MindManager in the Applications of MindManager are redundant and the blog owner needs to be able to hide them.

I think anything that is a link should be a consistent colour. Some are blue some are black. Don’t miss the black ones like I did!

What would you change or add or improve?

Visit these sites to try BlogSummarizer on your blog or WebSummarizer to get summaries of other web sites.

Whenever Graham Wilson asks a question it sparks me into doing some research as to what MindManager can do. Sunday’s question was “How do you integrate Evernote with Mind Mapping?“. There is not a simple answer but a variety of tools you can employ.

There is an Evernote Export from Mindjet Web (was Connect). Select a topic, click the Evernote tool, select the approriate options and you could have a topic, subtopics and links from a map as an outline in an Evernote note and a link back to the Mindjet Web map.

You can drag and drop or copy and paste Evernote urls to a Mindjet 11 for Windows (or its MindManager predecessors) map or copy and paste for Mindjet Web.

Open Evernote in Mindjet’s (MindManager’s) built in browser and use the paste function to create a dashboard of your Evernote notes. If you saved this in Mindjet (Cloud) Files, you could access the map from Mindjet Web or the mobile apps. You can also save it in Dropbox and read it in a MindManager compatible web or mobile app. I could create an Evernote dashboard in Mindjet and add alarms, resources, task info to the Evernote Topic on the map.

Here is a short video showing the adding of Evernote Note’s to a map. Best viewed full screen:

It’s been a while since I posted and that’s because it’s was the summer in England! Well it was rather a damp summer. It feels like my cricket games were evenly split between those that were called off the day before, those where we had a few overs and then ran for cover, and few matches which were completed in pleasant sunshine (I missed the 30 deg C game). Now it’s the first full week back in the office and I wondered what I (and you) had been using MindManager for over the holiday period?

I did monitor and manage the business using maps like the one outlined here: Using MindManager to create a Financial Information Map. Very useful after you have cycled 100 miles there and back to a music festival and need to deal with a few things quickly when brain is not quite back in gear.

And of course the map I am not going to share with you which reminds me of the user names and passwords for the large number of on-line accounts I now seem to have. Life was so much simpler in the 70s when you just had a couple of pin numbers to remember!

There’s my quick list. What did you use MindManager for in the last couple of months?

Sometime in your life you have to manage the affairs of someone who has died. Which is what I am doing now. I thought I would share my general checkmap and links with you. I have another specific one for tracking the estate I am the executor for. The hyperlinks are for those in the UK. If I have missed anything please tell me!

Get a Dropbox account, create and share two folders with the group e.g.

Web site

New files You will have to invite them and all that malarky but this will give you extra storage. The folders will appear in your My Documents folder in the My Dropbox folder.

Create a map which links to all the files you want to share with the group. Do not use multiple hyperlinks, they are not supported in the web exports.

Export the map using the web export. If all the text and explanations is in topic text you just need the Clickable Image export, if you add topic notes use the Static Outline or Dynamic Templates or Simple Outline or One Page.

Export the map to the Dropbox folder web site. I suggest changing the name of the Root export filename in Customise > Advanced settings to something relevant. A mini web site will be created with a folder called LinkedDocuments with all the linked files in it. Your original documents will remain where they where, these are copies by default. Other folders are created for the more sophisticated web exports to support the styles, images etc. used in the export.

Give the group the link to the root export file and the web site will appear. e.g test-site I have saved the web export to the Public Folder in Dropbox.

Ask the group to add new files to the New files folder.

Link the new files to the map and re-export.

Note: You cannot share local files via the PDF Viewer and Flash export. If you just have hyperlinks to web pages on the map then you could also store them in Dropbox and save updated versions.

Obviously there are many other file management systems out there but this may be enough for your needs. Similar processes may be possible with Microsoft’s Skydrive and Google sites.